One reason why I've abandoned that strategy. 

If it's abandoned, you can mail or call.

Boards on windows to property right and left=FEverything in a two block radius looks rented or owned, but three blocks over a few houses have boarded up windows or look abandoned=DMost everything looks occupied in a 4 or 5 block radius and you see several work trucks in the driveway or evidence blue collar folks live in many of the houses=CI don‘t buy A or B properties, so I can‘t help there.

Other issues i see are: termite damage, no footings on foundations, crumbling mortar in brick, underground oil tanks, abandoned cesspools, settling, unexpected finds behind walls, knob and tub, galvanized water pipes, lead water mains, orangeburg sewers. 

There was an abandoned pool and overgrown landscaping that made the property appear MUCH worse than it actually was.

My own home (a duplex) that we purchased with no money down, took advantage of a NYS grant to fix up abandoned properties, $35,000 without any repayment, fixed it the way we like, rented out a wonderful unit in a neighborhood that we would not have any chance of getting into.

I liked the acronym that Pace Morby used for Fears - failure, embarrassment, abandonment, rejection, and success - as reasons people use to never start in REI.

On June 9, 2021, the project was abandoned by TC Energy.Now, for those not savy on math, the CUTTING of that oil supply, when cross referenced by what oil has been issued out by EMERGENCY order from the U.S. strategic oil reserves, = 600 days.

I am definitely open to the idea of keeping my future investments long-term and abandoning the apartment idea if they are lucrative enough.

I don't know if this ever happened to you guys, but one of my tenants just basically abandoned her unit and left in the middle of the night without a word.